CONSHOHOCKEN >> The Fourth of July weekend got off to a rousing start Friday night with a fireworks display at Sutcliffe Park. More festivities, including parades and fireworks, are scheduled throughout the area Saturday in celebration of the na...

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A letter from John Lennon lights a fire under an aging pop star (Al Pacino) who’s grown weary of life on the road. Inspired by the decades-old missive, Danny Collins decamps to the Hilton in Woodcliff Lake, N.J. where he sparks with the hotel’s manager (Annette Bening) while on a mission to reconnect with his son (Bobby Cannavale) and daughter-in-law (Jennifer Garner). In “Danny Collins” (2015, Universal, R, $30), the actors are a cinematic dream team, with...

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A frequent visitor to Norristown passed away last week in India. Sister Nirmala Joshi, MC, who succeeded Mother Teresa as head of the Missionaries of Charity, died in Kolkata. She was 81 years old. Sister Nirmala, MC had visited the Missionaries of Charity house in Norristown often during her time as head of the Missionaries of Charity from 1997-2009. Her last visit was in 2009 when the Missionaries of Charity celebrated their 25th anniversary of establishing a convent in Norristown.